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Memristors are touted as the forth fundamental electronic component after resistors, capacitors and inductors. Progress is steady and fairly recent but the tech

Memristors are touted as the forth fundamental electronic component after resistors, capacitors and inductors. Progress is steady and fairly recent but the technology only seems to hold public attention for very brief periods over the decades. So I guess you could say it has withered in the eyes of the public at least. It should be a big deal though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

InSteady 3y ago
>Experimentally, the ideal memristor has yet to be demonstrated. I'm not an expert by a looooong shot, but it looks like there is some baseline of expected behavior that has been experimentally demonstrated for all three established components. If I'm understanding correctly, that would be a huge roadblock to wide adoption.
tetris11 3y ago
> Memristors can potentially be fashioned into non-volatile solid-state memory, which could allow greater data density than hard drives with access times similar to DRAM, replacing both components. It's weird I had to scroll down so far to understand what exactly this thing could do.
abstractcontrol 3y ago
> It should be a big deal though. If they can get the manufacturing process for them worked out. I really do wish memristors turned out to be a success, HP hyped them so massively in the 2011-2015 era. What happened was that the material they had was susceptible to rusting, so what seemed like a good initial yield would become unusable some months down the road. I google for memristors sometimes, and all the activity regarding them is still confined to the lab unfortunately.